Of the Smoke and Fire patterns, I would choose stock #RHF-701 for the shirt and #PI-775 for the trousers. While at the Halifax Citadel, who recreates the mid 19thC, we made clothes similar to these patterns. I did make confederate jackets for a couple of the guys to go to Gettysburg the big year. They wore them as 'undress' jackets with basic civi trousers and shirts, they went with the 'Authentic Movement' guys, the movement guys were impressed with their turn out. The pattern I used was from CountryCloth/Chas.R.Childs it was very good, the only thing I did was raise the front neck to a natural curve. I believe that he took a pattern from an existing garment, similar to the ones we had at the Citadel. The undress jackets will scoop out in the neck as they are worn due to the fact of the wool they are made of, without any stabilizing interlining.
Hope that helps, if you have any questions, ask...I lived in that time period for several years ;-)
Kelly in Nova Scotia Susan wrote: Check out http://www.smoke-fire.com/pattern-shop.htm Lalah wrote:
of the conflict I was researching. I have a multitude of pictures of Confederate uniforms, but would really love to have a decent pattern to start with.
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